The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-04-21

there can be no doubt about the resurrec-
tion of their bodies. If the world lasts as
much longer as it has already been built,
there perhaps may be no room for the
large acreage set apart for the resting
places, but that time has not come. Plenty
of room yet, and the race need not pass
that bridge of fire until it comes to it. The
most of us prefer the old way. But whether
out o. natural disintegration or cremation
we shall get that luminous, buoyant, glad
some, transcendent, magnificent, inexpli-
cable structure called the resurrection body;
you will have it, will have it. l say to
you to-day, as Paul said to Agrippa: "Why
shouldit be thought thing incredible with
you that God should raise the dead?" The
far up cloud, higher than the hawk flies,
higher than the eagle flies, what is it made
of? Drops of water from the Hudson,
other drops from the East River, other drops
from stagnant pool out on Newark flats
up youder there, embodied in cloud and
the sun kindles it. If God can make such
a lustrous cloud out of water drops, many
of them soiled and impure and fetched
from miles away, can He not transport the
fragments of human body from the earth,
and out of them build a radiant bodyT
Cannot God, who owns all the material ont
of which bones and muscle and flesh are
fallen? If manufacturer of telescopes
drop telescope on the floor and it breaks,
can he not mend it again so you can see
through it? And if God drops the human
eye into the dust, the eye which he origi-
nally fashioned, can He mo- restore itP Ay,
if the manufacturer of the telescope by
change of the glass and a change of the
focus can make better glass than what
was originally constructed, and actually
improve it, do you not think the fashioner
of the human eye may improve its sight
and multiply the natural eye by the thou
sandfold additional forces of the resurrec-
tion eye?
"Why should it be thought with you an
incredible thing that God should raise the
dead?" Things all around us suggest it.
Out of what grew all these flowers? Out
of the mold and the earth. Resurrected!
Resurrected! The radiant butterfly, where
did it come from? The loathsome cater
pillar. That albatross that smites the
tempest with its wing, where did it come
from? A senseless shell. Near Bergerac,
France, in a Celtic tomb under block
was found flower seed that had been
buried 1900 years. The explorer took the
flower seed and planted it, and it came up,
it bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two
rected. traveller says he found in q
mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had
been buried there 5000 years ago. he
brought them out and on June 4, 1874, bu
planted them, and in thirty days they
sprang up. Buried 5000 years, yet resur.
rected. "Why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should raise
the dead?"
Where did all this silk come from-the
silk that adorns your person and your
homes? In the hollow of a staff Greek
missionary brought from China to Europe
the progenitors of those worms that now
supply the silk markets of many nations.
The pageantry of hammered host and the
luxurious articles of commercial emporium
blazing out from the silk worms. And
who shall be surprised if out of this in
significant earthly body, this insignificant
earthly life, our bodies unfold into some-
thing worthy Of the coming eternities?
Put silver into diluted inter and it dis
solves. Is the silver gone forever? No.
Put in some pieces of copper and the silver
reappears. If one force dissolves another
force organizes.
"Why should it be thought a thing in
credible with you that God should raise the
dead;" The insects flew and the worms
ClUWltl luSJ AUTUMN lGtbltI anu lGGDlGr,
and then stopped. They have taken no
food, they want none. They lay dormant
and insensible, but soon the south wind
will blow the resurrection trumpet, and the
air and the earth will be full of them. Do
you not think that God can do as much for
our bodies as he does for the wasps and
the spiders and the snails? This morning
at 4:3O o'clock there was a resurrection.
Out of the night the day. In few weeks
there will be a resurrection in all our
gardens. Why not some days resurrection
amid all the graves?
Ever and anon there are instances of
men and women entranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrec-
ton after few days; total suspension Of
mental power and voluntary action. Rev.
William Tennent, great evangelist of the
last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald
Alexander, man far from being senti-
mental, wrote in most eulogistic terms
Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. His
spirit departed. People came in day after
day and said
ale is dead, he is dead" But the soul
that fled returned, and William Tennent
lived to write out the experiences of what
he has seen while his soul was gone. 1t
may be found some time that what is cal ed
suspended animation or comatose state is
brief death, giving the soul an excursion
into the next world from which it comes
back, a furlough of few hours granted
from the conflict of life 10 which it must
return. Do not this waking up of men
from trance, and this waking up of insects
from winter lifelessness, and this waking
up of grains buried 1000 years ago, make |
it easier for you 10 believe that your body
and mine after the vacation of the grave
shall rouse and rally, though there be 5000 |
years between our last breath and the |
sounding of the archangelic reveilleP |
Psychologists tell us that while the most of |
our bodies are built with such wonderful |
economy that we can spare nothing, and |
the loss of finger is hinderment, and !
the injury of toe Joint makes us lame, |
still that we hrve two or three useless |
physical apparati, and no anatomist or |
Psychologist has ever been able to tell what !
they are good for. They are no doubt the |
foundation OF the resurrection body, worth |
nothing to us in this State, to be indis- |
pensably valuable in the next State. The !
Jewish rabbis had only hint of this sug-
gestion when they said that in the human |
frame there was small bone which they !
said was to be the basis of the resurrection !
body. Perhaps that may have been a de- !
lusion. But this thing is certain, the :
Christian scientists of our day have found
out that there are two or three superhuities
OF body that are something gloriously sug-
gestive Of another state.
called at my friends house one sum-
mer day. found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish of carpenter and masons !
work. The door was off. The plumbers
had torn up the floor. The roof was being !
lifted in cupola. All the pictures we're |
uope and the npnnr bonparS wpra 6niDu !
their work. All the modern improvements |
were being introduced into that dwelling. |
There was not a room in the house fit to ,
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